Billionaire tech entrepreneur Tom Siebel: The pandemic will “clear the silliness out of the market”

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Last week, I spent some time chatting with Tom Siebel, the billionaire entrepreneur who runs C3.ai, which sells big data analytics and A.I. software to some of the world’s largest businesses. It counts Royal Dutch Shell, Bank of America, 3M and the U.S. Air Force among its customers.

Siebel is known for being outspoken and, in our wide-ranging discussion about today’s state of A.I., he didn’t disappoint.

On pandemic data:

“No one here has